"Starting Wireless Hotspot..." but nothing happens
I was trying to create an WiFi hotspot for my android device. I used ap-hotspot to do so.
I configured the ap-hotspot using
sudo ap-hotspot configure
Then I started ap-hotspot using
sudo ap-hotspot start
Then it shows this
Starting Wireless Hotspot...
And then nothing happens, no further message is displayed, hotspot is not created.
What is Wrong? How to fix it?
ap-hotspot
uses hostapd
to create wireless network
I had problems creating hotspot using hostapd
in Ubuntu 14.04 mainly because new version of hostapd
in 14.04 default repository is buggy.
You can solve this problem by downgrading hostapd
in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to a previous version
Uninstall buggy hostapd
using apt-get:
sudo apt-get remove hostapd
Then install non-buggy version of hostapd:
-
64 - bit:
cd /tmp wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wpa/hostapd_1.0-3ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i hostapd*.deb sudo apt-mark hold hostapd
-
32 - bit:
cd /tmp wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wpa/hostapd_1.0-3ubuntu2.1_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i hostapd*.deb sudo apt-mark hold hostapd
"sudo apt-mark hold hostapd" will prevent hostapd to upgrade to the buggy version.
Then try running ap-hotspot
again, I think it should work. It worked for me like a charm.
Install the hostapd
as mentioned above, followed by ap-hotspot
, from http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/webupd8/trusty/main/base/ap-hotspot and run
sudo ap-hotspot configure
Give the correct inter-phase eth0 and wlan0 followed by ssid and pass-phrase.
Start the hotspot by
sudo ap-hotspot start